Rocker-holder for liquid-containers.



M. BYE;

I ROCKER HOLDER FOR LIQUID CONTAINERS. APPLICATION- FILED AUG-9.1911.

1,299,296. Patented A 51 1,1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1, 1919.

Application filed August a, 1917. Serial No. 185,398.

1 b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORTIMER BYE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, Marion county, and State of Indiana, have invented and discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Rocker-Holders for Liquid-Containers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to holders for glass containers, particularly large bottles and carboys, and it especially relates to that class of devices known as rocker-holders.

The objects of the invention are to provide a construction whereby the holder may be rocked in a forward direction from the front thereof to carry the bottle into pouring position, while at the same time the bottlemaintains its same position relatively to the body of the holder; to provide means whereby such rocking movement will be gradual and easy and the initial resistance to the movement less than in rocker-holders of the usual form while at the same time ampl clearance space for the bottle mouth above the floor is provided;

to provide means whereby the elongated supporting rockers, obtaining the gradual. and easy movement referred to, may be effectively protected while within the box or holder; and to provide a construction that enables the ordinary fiat lid to be utilized to close the holder and permit access to the holder or to the bottle.

With these objects in view, my invention is embodied in preferable form in the device hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In these drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the holder showing a container therein consisting of a carboy and showing the lid of the holder raised and the rockercarrying member swung out part way; Fig. 2 a vertical section showing the holder in closed position, and Fig. 3 a sectional View showing the holder tilted into the position it is adapted to occupy when the contents of the container are to be poured out, Fig. 4 a vertical cross section through the holder at right angles to Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the body of the holder which is preferably made of wood and is adapted to receive therein a glass carboy, large bottle or similar container 2, which is supported upon the b0ttom of the holder and may be surrounded by Suitable packing material, if desired.

The front Wall of the holder is divided into two sections, a lower fixed section 3, and an upper movable section 4. The upper section is pivoted at its lower end by suitable pivotal connections 5, which may 'consist of hinges connected to the lower fixed section. This upper section constitutes a rocker-carrying member and is provided along each side edge thereof with a semielliptical side flange 6, which constitute rocker members, and the inner portions 7, of which extend beyond the base of the section 4 and are adapted to project within the body portion of the holder when the rockercarrying member is in closed position or is being swung out on its pivot. These wings 7 of the rockers are adapted to project between the outer walls of the body of the holder and inner wall sections 8, which together with said outer walls form a recess adapted to guide and protect the said wings as the rockers are moved in and out in a tilting movement thereof.

The front wall of the holder is equally divided by the junction between the fixed and movable sections whereby it is possible to make the rockers as long as the full height of the vertical dimension of the holder, which enables a rocker curve of long radius to be obtained, thus imparting an immediate initial tilting action and giving the long, easy, gradual rolling movement previously referred to. The double wall construction cooperates with this arrange ment in guarding and protecting the otherwise unsupported rear wings of the rockers when the same are tilted back into the box. Such double wall also provides a some what yielding retaining means for the inclosed bottle thus increasing the degree of protection for the latter.

In order to strengthen and brace the rocker members, especially against the strain of supporting the holder and its container thereon, a cross brace and guard member consisting of a cleat 9 is secured to the section 4, between the ends thereof and is connected to and braces the rocker members. It is also so mounted that a curved slot 10 thereof is adapted to fit againstthe neck of the bottle or carboy when the front is in closed position to thereby guard and retain the carboy in position. A similar fixed guard cleat 11 is secured to and extends horizontally from the rear wall of the holder. Hinged to the body of the holder is a lid 12 consisting of an ordinary flat cover which is adapted to be secured in place by any suitable catch or look.

In the use of the holder, the movable section of the front wall is swung into closing position, the carboy inserted and the lid folded down and suitably secured whereupon the holder is ready for shipping. To pour the contents from the container the lid is lifted, the rocker-carrying member swung out on its pivot until it rests flat against the fixed section of the front wall and then the entire holder is tilted forward on these rocker members until the mouth of the bottle is brought to the desired position of angularity to effect the pouring operation. The holder may be further tilted relatively to the rockers by lifting the same on the pivot 5.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim is l. A holder for liquid containers having a pivoted member carrying curved segmental rockers along its edges, the plane of the base of said member from which said rockers extend perpendicularly being parallel to the vertical plane of the front wall of the holder when the member is in either closed position within the holder or swung out to supporting position, the pivot line of the member being below the upper level of the holder.

2. A holder for liquid containers having a movable section provided with rocker means of a length corresponding to the greatest dimension of the holder and adjustable to a position outside of the holder to receive and tiltingly support the same.

8. A holder for liquid containers having a section of a vertical wall thereof pivotally mounted and carrying curved rockers extending the full length of said wall.

4. A holder for liquid containers having a vertical wall thereof divided into a lower fixed section and an upper hinged section, the hinge being below the level of the top of the holder, and curved segmental rocker means carried on said hinged section, the sectors of which lie in the vertical plane of the said movable wall section, whereby the rocker supporting sector base lies in vertical planes in both the closed and open positions.

5. A holder for liquid containers having a fixed lower vertical wall section, an upper hinged wall section adapted to fold down upon the outside of the fixed section, curved rocker members carried by said movable section, the bases of which extend along the vertical edges of said section and project horizontally beyond the inner edge of the movable section when the latter is in either closed or open position.

- 6. A holder for liquid containers having a vertical wall divided into a lower fixed section and an upper section hinged along its lower horizontal border to the fixed section, rocker members on the vertical side edges of the hinged section projecting beyond the inner horizontal edge thereof, said holder having double side walls into which said rockers are adapted to project.

7. In a holder for liquid containers, in combination with a lid therefor, a member pivoted to the holder and independent of said lid, and holder-tilting rocker means carried by said member.

8. In a holder for liquid containers, in combination with a hinged lid for the holder, and rocker means independent of the lid and mounted for projection outward from the interior of the holder to supporting position outside thereof in front of the free end of the lid.

9. In a holder for liquid containers, in combination with a lid hinged to the body of the holder, a rocker-carrying member pivoted to the body and movable outward from the interior to a position outside the wall opposite to that to which the lid is hinged.

10. In a holder for liquid containers, in combination with a lid hinged to the body of the holder, the front of the body at the free end of said lid being divided into a lower fixed section and an upper hinged section, rockers carried by said member along the side edges thereof and extending the length of said front wall, said rockers being movable into and out of the holder with said member.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Indianapolis this 12th day of July, A. D., nineteen hundred and seventeen.

MORTIMER BYE. [L. 5.] Witnesses H. P. DOOLITTLE, M. L. WHEELER.

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